Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Taleb, scourge of the banking sector, has a new target: orange juice
(an unhealthy cocktail of sugars). In fact, breakfast gets a mauling. And
trainers (the shoes and the fitness “gurus”). Be prepared. You will have to
engage with the crisis of capitalism alongside homespun injunctions: wear
sock-style shoes to mimic walking barefoot; “just drink wine, water and
coffee”; exercise isn’t enough, get hungry through fasting.

The central thesis of Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t
Understand is easy enough to summarise. What is the opposite of
fragility? It is not quite robustness because there is